Practice today was extremely frustrating. For me, personally, it was incredibly difficult to keep myself moving after such a rough weekend. Rebounding after tournaments will grow easier as I get more into shape, but right now I just feel stiff and beaten. I know that some of my teammates had similar problems today.
But fatigue isn't the primary source of my frustrations. We have not yet divided into an A and a B team (and I don't know when exactly we plan to do that) and the sure B teamers are making life rather difficult. It is hard to play offense with players who are never in the right place and always obstructing everybody else's cuts. It is hard to play offense with players who rarely look back for a dump at the right time, or who seem incapable of cutting within a system no matter how many times the system is explained to them. It is hard to run your ass off on defense only to have some schmuck drop the disc or toss it away on something ridiculously miserable.
New recruits are good for a program. Cutting some new recruits is good for a team.
I just feel as though nobody is able to progress when we have a practice like today's. With so many bad players on the field, it is hard to demonstrate proper strategy and technique to the promising new players who require instruction. It is hard to continue running hard when you know that four of the seven people on the line at any given time are humongous liabilities.
...but maybe a lot of my frustrations have to do with my own fatigue. I didn't seem to have so much trouble running last week, when I was a little bit fresher. Maybe my enthusiasm will return tomorrow after another night's rest. Or maybe the whole situation is really just wearing on me.
All I can say is that I can't wait for cuts.
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